§ MR. REES (Montgomery Boroughs)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether in British Central Africa or any other British Protectorate in Africa, any law, or rule, having the force of law, restricts the erection of Christian schools to villages in which the chief and one-fifth of the population consent to such erection?
§ THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. CHURCHILL) Manchester, N.W.There is, so far as the Secretary of State is aware, no law, or rule having the force of law, in any British Protectorate in Africa which restricts the erection of Christian schools, except in the British Central Africa Protectorate, where, as a consequence of disturbances in the earlier days of the Protectorate, a notice was issued by the Commissioner to the effect that a missionary must obtain the assent of the chief and of the majority of the people to the building of a church, chapel or school, in villages which have been created—as nearly all have been created —native reserves.